Very little of recent psychoanalytic writing has figured into scholarship within the discipline of art history. This has been something of a missed opportunity, given the highly fruitful analyses and critiques of established ideas and frameworks within film studies, philosophy and cultural studies by psychoanalytically-oriented theorists such as Joan Copjec and the Slovenian school over the past two decades. This session invites submissions that address some aspect of visual culture in relation to psychoanalysis. Possible topics might engage with, but are by no means limited to: psychoanalytic accounts of subjectivity, representation and/or ethics, questions of interpretation, aesthetics, the ‘uncanny’, sublimation, sexuality, trauma and antagonism. How might the psychoanalytic insights of Freud and Lacan help us to better understand the relations of artistic and cultural production/spectatorship to emancipatory political struggles and the processes of social and cultural marginalization based on class, race, ethnicity and gender identity?